links for 2007-05-17

• Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing: Freemium - Free to paid conversion rates
  DealMaker Forum attendees have 1.5%-5% free-to-pay conversion rates; average is 3%. Most offer small/medium/large service plans.
  (tags: stats SaaS)
• Google Operating System: Informational Voyeurism
  Want to check this out: Clicky has a "spy" feature "that shows you actions on your web site as they are happening, delayed no more than five seconds". You'll spend hours finding who visits your site and why.
  (tags: tools stats)
• SmugBlog: Don MacAskill » Blog Archive » Sun Honeymoon Update: Storage
  (tags: storage)
• mattheaton.com » Blog Archive » Microsoft, take note!
  My goodness! "I WILL NEVER EVER IN 1,000 YEARS USE A MICROSOFT PRODUCT FOR BLUEHOST! NEVER! We will never do windows hosting, we will never do Exchange hosting, and we will never use Longhorn server or advanced server."
  (tags: MSFT)
• Startups and The Challenges Of The Freemium Pricing Model
  (tags: SaaS)
• Everything TypePad: Go beyond blogging with TypePad Pages
  Awesome! That was one missing feature which gave me WordPress envy.